药理学是药物科学，其化学和生化特性以及它们与活细胞，组织和生物体的相互作用的科学。在过去的60年中，药理学极大地改变了生物学和医学。由于药理学实验室的发现，疾病得以治愈，疼痛得到缓解，以前的致命疾病也被制止。基础科学已经回答了重要问题，但许多问题仍未解决。威尔·康奈尔大学研究生院药理博士学位课程的科学基础在现代生物学和生物医学工程领域对学生进行培训。该计划的宗旨是在其学院范围广泛的研究的推动下，为学生提供从事癌症生物学，神经科学，心血管生理学，毒理学，临床药理学，蛋白质组学，代谢组学，药物设计等研究活动的
Pharmacology is the science of drugs, their chemical and biochemical properties, and their interactions with live cells, tissues and organisms. In the past 60 years, pharmacology has changed biology and medicine dramatically. Diseases are cured, pain is relieved and formerly fatal illnesses are arrested due to the discoveries made in pharmacology laboratories. Important questions have been answered by basic science, but many remain unsolved. Scientific foundation of the pharmacology PhD program at Weill Cornell Graduate School trains students in areas of modern biology and biomedical engineering. The program's mission, facilitated by the broad scope of research conducted by the its faculty, is to provide students with the foundation necessary for pursuing research activities in cancer biology, the neurosciences, cardiovascular physiology, toxicology, clinical pharmacology, proteomics, metabolomics, drug design and synthesis, and translational research.